Frank Reicher
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1875-12-02
Deathday 1965-01-19 (89 years old)
Place of Birth Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Also Known As George H. Lloyd, Frank Reichert, Franz Reicher
Frank Reicher
Biography
Frank Reicher (December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong. Reicher made his Broadway debut the year he came to America playing Lord Tarquin in Harrison Fiske's production of Becky Sharp, a comedy by Langdon Mitchell based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. His early career was spent in legitimate theater on and off Broadway. He was head of the Brooklyn Stock Company when Jacob P. Adler performed The Merchant of Venice in Yiddish while the rest of the cast remained in English. Reicher was for a number of years affiliated with the Little Theatre on West Forty-Fourth Street as an actor and manager and would remain active on Broadway as actor, director or producer well into the 1920s. On stage, Reicher starred in such plays as the first Broadway production of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight (as the cashier), and the original production of Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (in the title role). Frank Reicher is probably more familiar to modern audiences as a supporting character actor in films. He began his cinema career with an uncredited role in the 1915 film The Case for Becky and would go on to work in over two hundred motion pictures. He is probably best remembered for playing the character of Captain Englehorn in King Kong and The Son of Kong, and for his work in such films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). His last Hollywood role was in the very first theatrical Superman movie, Superman and the Mole Men, in 1951. Frank Reicher died at a hospital in Inglewood, California, aged 89. He was survived by his sister and a brother. His interment was at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
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as Hospital Superintendent
as Count Eckhardt
as Darius 'Doc' Green
as Village Barber
as Cathcart
as Major
as Doctor
as Razor the Barber
as Dr. MacKenzie
as The Minister
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Maasdam
as Pop, apartment concierge
as H.W. Randall
as Jason Cragmyle
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
as Michael Hasdon
as Doctor
as Coroner
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
as Father Bly (uncredited)
as Harper
as William Riker, the Butler
as Dr. Ballou
as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
as Prof. Matthew Norman
as Dr. Wells
as Professor Schmidt
as Lyman
as Linden, Sr.
as Dr. Hartman
as Rudick - the Assasin
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
as Professor Matthew Norman
as Dr. Timmons
as Thaddeus Quentin
as Henry Bremmer
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
as Sneath
as Magistrate
as Polish Official (uncredited)
as Fritz
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
as Board Member (uncredited)
as Professor Baumer
as Dr. Esterhazy
as Wiley Henderson
as Captain
as Edvaard Kreindling
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
as Dr. Crattan
as Friehof
as President
as Dr. Greenleaf
as Police Official (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Prof. Kendall
as Old Man
as Pharmacist
as Don Diego Mendoza
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Dr. Shumaker
as Baron von Bissing
as Mendietta Garcia
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
as Dr. Amos Thornton
as Man in Charge of Duel
as Jones
as Dr. Mathews
as President of Assize Court
as Police Official (uncredited)
as The Professor - Henchman
as General Changarnier
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
as Prefect of Police
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
as Doctor Hartman
as Jozsef
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
as Stage Director
as Kurtz
as Horace Darwin
as Pop Martin
as Pavloff
as Vincent Long II
as Ernst's Father
as Carl - gang engineer
as Von Cram
as Dr. Larson
as Rainer
as Robinson
as Eben McClelland
as Rudolph Brehmer
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
as Dr. Larson
as Planetarium Lecturer
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
as Doctor Heimkin
as Coachman to Paris
as Headmaster
as Dr. Hoffenreich
as Doctor (uncredited)
as French General
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
as Colonel Von Diegel
as Dr. Paul Luke
as Governor Felipe Vega
as Dr. Pfeiffer
as Professor Meiklejohn
as Dr. Coate
as Dr. Rochard
as Dr. Trenk
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
as 2nd Assistant Director
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
as Dr. Jaipur
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
as Von Stein
as Herr Vanderkloot
as Dr. James
as Barrett
as Auctioneer
as Max Bolen
as Dr. Carl Cooper
as Mr. X
as Doctor
as Franz Reinhardt
as Richards
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Police Commissioner
as Herr Winterstein
as Danny
as Captain Englehorn
as Herr Hauptman
as Joe Valerie
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
as Aristide
as Captain Englehorn
as Dr. Stegg
as Garfinkle
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
as Rankin
as The General
as The Cook - Spy
as Holtzmann
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
as German Hospital Chief
as Francesco Tomasulo
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
as Duke of Brocklehurst
as Milton Jorny
as State's Attorney
as Randall
as Dr. Stecker
as The Eye Specialist
as Napoleon's Barber
as Count Zellner
as Baron
as The Schoolmaster
as Gen. de Beaujolais
as Professor Krantz
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Writer
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Crew
as Presenter